So I have reformatted onto a new-ish HDD, Seagate 250GB 16MB 7.2k. I tried defragging to get all my files down the the centre of the disc as I like to have them but this HDD just wouldn't let them go there using Windows defrag. So I tried JK Defrag as it looked like the shizzle and it is showing a HUGE MFT (pink area in screen shot below) and won't move any files there?

I have run some tests using HDTune and HDTach and there is nothing glaringly wrong that I can tell? Also Chkdsc did not report any errors either. Any idea why I have such a massive MFT area?

I have system restore off. My Recycle bin reserved space is at 3%. My pagefile is 3GB and even if I move it to a seperate HDD the huge MFT is still present.

No I am not really sure the pink IS the MFT it is just that JK Defrag says pink = MFT. So that is what I am basing this on. And yes my MFT in previous builds was much smaller, barely detectable than what this is showing, hence my confusion.

JK Defrag seems pretty popular on notebookreview and is a HOT item at majorgeeks. The fact that it shows a lot of detail and is supposed to do an excellent job of moving files to free blocks close to the centre of the disc is what drew me to it. Oh and it's free

Here's the scoop as to why my 250 GB dedicated C: drive was reserving ~1/5 of the total drive size for the MFT.

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As more files and directories are added to the file system, it becomes necessary for NTFS to add more records to the MFT. Since keeping the MFT contiguous on the disk improves performance, when an NTFS volume is first set up, the operating system reserves about 12.5% of the disk space immediately following the MFT; this is sometimes called the "MFT Zone". This is a substantial chunk of real estate to reserve, but bear in mind that it is still usable. Regular files and directories will not use this space until and unless the rest of the disk volume space is consumed, but if that occurs, the "MFT Zone" will be used.